FIRST OPEN MEETING OF THE HUMAN DIMENSIONS 
                OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE COMMUNITY
                     Duke University, Durham NC, USA
                             June 1-3, 1995
 
                                    
                      WITH SPECIAL PLENARY SESSIONS
       International Institutions and Global Environmental Change
          Scientific Analysis, Perceptions, and Decision-Making
             Property Rights and Global Environmental Change
           Industrial Restructuring and Sustainable Development
                  Land Use/Cover Modeling and Analysis
             Human Migration and Global Environmental Change
                                    
 
     The first open meeting of the human dimensions community
will be held at Duke University, Durham NC USA on Thursday-
Saturday June 1-3, 1995. This meeting is sponsored by the Social
Science Research Council and its Committee for Research on Global
Environmental Change; the Human Dimensions Programme of the
International Social Science Council; the Consortium for
International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN); and the
Duke University School of the Environment.  
    
     The purpose of the meeting is to bring together the growing
human dimensions community to promote exchanges of information on
current research, teaching and outreach, to encourage networking
in this new field, and to attract social scientists, humanists
and others not previously involved in human dimensions work. 
There will be special plenary sessions on leading issues in the
human dimensions of global environmental change including:
international institutions and global environmental change;
scientific analysis, perceptions, and decision-making;  property
rights and global environmental change; industrial restructuring
and sustainable development; land use/cover modelling and
analysis; and human migration and global environmental change.  
     The meeting will include additional round-table discussions
on human dimensions research and teaching, and modelling and
publications displays. Those wishing to organize multi-paper
sessions for the conference on the plenary topics or other topics
at local, regional and global scales are urged to communicate
with the organizers; final proposals for such sessions are due by
December 1, 1994.
     To receive the latest conference, registration, and
accommodations information via e-mail, send the following request
message to: ftpmail@ciesin.org (no subject is necessary), with
the commands on separate lines: open ftp.ciesin.org (enter) 
cd kiosk (enter) get hdmeeting (enter) quit (enter). For
additional information on the conference please contact: Global
Environmental Change Program, Social Science Research Council,
605 Third Avenue, New York NY USA 10158; telephone 212/661-0280;
fax 212/370-7896;internet gordon@acfcluster.nyu.edu or
majord@acfcluster.nyu.edu.